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Subject: Re: Who is leading the World in computer chess technology

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 23:01:23 05/24/01

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On May 25, 2001 at 00:45:15, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On May 25, 2001 at 00:34:09, william penn wrote:
>
>>Does america have the lead, i know that belle was the first master level chess
>>computer and americans are the pioneers of computer chess.
>
>Probably Germany has the best chess programs/programmers.  Certainly that's true
>per capita.  Then again, I don't know the population of Guadaloupe, so maybe
>that island has the lead with one of the world's best programs and a small
>population.
>
>Here is a pretty good list of chess programmers:
>http://members.aol.com/herrmannaw/indexa.html
>
>There are a lot of good programmers in the US now, but I suspect that the total
>in Europe is much higher.
>
>I don't think it matters much where they come from.  It is interesting to yammer
>on about it once in a while, and I do wonder why that portion of Europe
>(Germany/Netherlands/Belgium/Switzerland/CzeckRepublic/Austria/Denmark) produces
>so many good ones.
>
>Must be the water.  Can I have a glass?

I'll tell you one thing.  In a "First letter of author's last name" team event,
the M's would certainly win.

bruce




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